Building member



Feb. 13, 1940. G. E. SWENSON BUILDING MEMBER Original Filed Dec. 1, 1936 INVENTOR G :0 ye [d w a rel Swenson I/QQ y ATTORNEYS Patented Feb. 13, 1940 UNITED STATES BUILDING DEMBER.

George Edward Swenson, Hastings on Hudson, N. Y.

Application 8 Claims.

This invention relates to a metallic structure which can be used as a building member for houses and other buildings. The building member is made up of corrugated metal plates or sheets contacting with each other so that the hills of the corrugation of the members contact and are attached together in such a manner that nails or the like can be driven between the members and will be held frictionally in place so that ill; laths, ceiling, weather boarding, heat insulating sheets, etc., can be readily attached thereto without dimculty.

The invention will be understood from the description in connection with the accompanying l5; drawing, in which Fig. l. is an end view partly in section and partly broken away of an illustrative embodiment of the invention; Fig. 2 is a side View partly broken away, showing one of the details; Fig. 3 is a broken away section, showing some more details; Fig. 4 is a side view on a smaller scale, partly broken away, showing two of the building members connected by a cross member of the same sort; Figs. 5, 6 and '7 are sections along the lines 5--5, 6-6 and 'I-'| of Fig. 4:; and Figs. 8 and 9am horizontal sections through modifications.

In the drawing, reference characters I and I' indicate the middle or intermediate portions of corrugated metal members that are attached together and are provided along their edges with flanges 2 and 2' extending at right angles to the middle or intermediate portions of these members. The outer edges of the flanges 2 and 2 may be folded back. as indicated at 3 and 3' and the flanges of one of the members extends in directions opposite those of the other member. The members I and I may be attached together at intervals in any convenient way, as, for example, by means of rivets. The members I and I' are slitted, as indicated in Fig. 2, from a central point radially to provide a plurality of slits, eight such slits being shown in this figure. Both members I and I are slitted at the same place and the pairs of slits of. both members are bent atthe roots of the tongues I and 1' formed by the slits, as indicated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, so that these tongues are bent over and form holding means helpingto keep -the members I and I' in assembled relation. Also, the slits and bent tongues provide openings 8 through the members for wires, pipes and the like. Passageways may of course be provided from the holes 8 to the channels 9 between the corrugations.

Althoughonly a few corrugations are shown in the intermediate portions I and I, it is to December 1, 1936, .Serial No. 113,569

Renewed May 16, 1939 same and between the portions i and I, as indicated in Fig. 1. The entering edges of the intermediate portions I and i are so shaped that V- shaped entrances ii. are provided so that the. nails it will be guided into place, even thoughthey are 011 the center line-between the portions x 1 I and I". The nails It may be roughened or provided with burrs to decrease the likelihood of the same slipping out after they have been driven into place.

When it is desired to attach across member to the pair of building members indicated in Fig. 1, this may be readily done, as shown in Fig. 4, which shows the assembly on a smaller scale. This arrangement may be used, for example, at door and window spaces or in other places. The horizontal member is made the same as the other members and is cut to fit the spaces between the middle portions of the two building members. The flanges of the cross member may be bent inwardly slightly at the ends thereof to so fit between the flanges 2 and 2' of the upright members, or the corrugations 2 and 2' of the upright members may be flattened out, as indicated in Figs. 4-7, until the edges 3 of the flanges 2 are flattened and spread out, as shown at I3 in these figures. The cross members may be attached to the upright members by riveting or in any other convenient way, as indicated by the reference character I4.

In the modification shown in Fig. 8, a wall I5 is indicated that may be made of brick, concrete or the like, with spaces I5 for receiving the corrugated members into which the nails II are to be driven and held in place. In this illustration a corrugated member I6 is shown folded back upon itself at I! with the hills of the corrugations in contact and the folded corrugated strip is inserted in the opening I5 and frictionally held in place. Stops or spacing members are provided in the folded member to limit the extent to which it is inserted in the space I5. One example of such a stop is indicated at I9 that is formed by flattening out a rrugation so that it limits the extent to which e folded members I6 can enter space I5. Or tongues 20 may be struck out at intervals from the corrugations to serve the same purpose as shown in Fig. 9. Furring strips 21 may be provided on the corrugated member l6, so that when the heat insulation material I0, or the like, is nailed in place, an air space 22 is left between it and the wall l5.

By providing the corrugations on the flanges with which the sheets or other material 10 contact, no large areas of contact are made between the metal and the sheets l0, but, on the contrary, air spaces or channels are provided which prevent cold streaks from being formed. The channels formed by the corrugations provide convenient passageways for electric wires and pipes and the building members may be made up of different thicknesses of metal to suit the needs in accord-'- 2. A building member comprising corrugated plates having apices of corrugations contacting, fastening means at intervals for said plates substantially at their apices, said plates having corrugated flanges along their edges substantially at right angles to the main body portions of said plates.

3. A building member comprising corrugated plates having apices of corrugations contacting,

fastening means at intervals for said plates substantially at their apices, said plates having flanges along their edges substantially at right angles to the main body portions of said plates. and tongues on one of said plates extending through openings in another one and bent back against it.

4. A building member comprising corrugated plates having apices of corrugations contacting, fastening means at intervals for said plates substantially at their apices, said plates having flanges along their edges substantially at right angles to the main body portions of said plates, with the edges of said flanges folded back.

5. A building member comprising corrugated plates having apices of corrugations contacting and furring strips at one edge of said plates.

6. A building member comprising corrugated plates having apices of corrugations contacting and furring strips at one edge of said plates, said furring strips being integral with said plates.

'7. A building member comprising corrugated plates having apices of corrugations contacting and furring stripsat one edge of said plates, said furring strips being integral with said plates. and stop members integral with said plates spaced from said furring strips.

8. A building member comprising corrugated plates having apices of corrugations contacting, fastening means at intervals for said plates, said plates having flanges along their edges substantially at right angles to the main body portions of said plates, said flanges being connected to said plates by inwardly converging walls.

GEORGE EDWARD SWENSON. 

